Archive | August 2025

Drawn by Lovingkindness

Aug15

Testimony:

🙏God, You make me so happy!🙌

Have you ever had a day when God pours out His everlasting kindness on you from a pitcher of everlasting love?

I took a walk. 87° degrees with a feel like of 91°.

But God . . .

Communicated His lovingkindness,

In a comfortable breeze.

Shade from trees on a portion of my walk.

And on the last portion of my walk with the full sun blaring down on me, God gave a cloud to cover the sun until I made it back home.

The God of all creation used His creation to pour out His love on me, His creation.

Small and insignificant we are not, who belong to God. He loves you with an everlasting love.

🌹The Lord appeared to him from afar, saying, “I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore I have drawn you with lovingkindness.
Jeremiah 31:3 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jer.31.3.NASB1995

Amen.

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Return and Draw Near

Aug14

Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
James 4:8 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.4.8.NASB1995

“Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Remove the evil of your deeds from My sight. Cease to do evil. Wash your heart from evil.
Isaiah 1:16/Jeremiah 4:14a NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa1.16.NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jer4.14 .NASB1995

“Listen: the Lord is with you when you are with Him. And if you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you. Therefore, the Lord says, “Return to Me that I may return to you.” And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure. (Paraphrase)
2 Chronicles 15:2b/Zechariah 1:3/1 John 3:3 NASB1995

🌹. . . the righteous will hold to his way, And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
Job 17:9 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/job.17.9.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Firm in Your Faith

Aug13

Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
James 4:7 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.4.7.NASB1995

1 Peter 5:6 Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God. . .

Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. But resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished by your brethren who are in the world. After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you. To Him be dominion forever and ever. Amen.
1 Peter 5:8-11 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1pe.5.8-11.NASB1995

Did you catch that? How do we resist the devil? Be firm in our faith.

🌹Whoever speaks, is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
1 Peter 4:11 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1pe.4.11.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Grace

Aug12

But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, “God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
James 4:6 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.4.6.NASB1995

Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted.
Matthew 23:12 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.23.12.NASB1995

For the hand of God made all things. There is nothing created that did not come into being without Him. God says, “But to this one I will look, To him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word.”
All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, for God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
Isaiah 66:2 /1 Peter 5:5 NASB1995

🌹For though the Lord is exalted, Yet He regards the lowly, But the haughty He knows from afar.
Psalms 138:6 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.138.6.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Sanctuary of The Holy Spirit

Aug11

Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: “He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us”?
James 4:5 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.4.5.NASB1995

Or do you not know that your body is a temple (sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?
1 Corinthians 6:19 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1co.6.19.NASB1995

What an awesome gift we, who have the Holy Spirit of God dwelling in us, have to be called His children. The Holy Spirit of promise who works in us to bring honor and glory to our God as we walk this earth fulfilling His purpose through us.

. . . For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk among them; And I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
2 Corinthians 6:16b NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/2co.6.16.NASB1995

🌹And I will be a father to you, And you shall be sons and daughters to Me,” Says the Lord Almighty.
2 Corinthians 6:18 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/2co.6.18.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Praise God For Life

Aug8

I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.
Psalms 139:14 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.139.14.NASB1995

What a wonder the human body is.
Is your life a life of praise for the gift you are?

🌹Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders which You have done, And Your thoughts toward us; There is none to compare with You. If I would declare and speak of them, They would be too numerous to count.
Psalms 40:5 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.40.5.NASB1995

How blessed is the man who has made the Lord his trust, And has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.
Psalms 40:4 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.40.4.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Unstained by The World

Aug7

You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
James 4:4 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.4.4.NASB1995

Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 John 2:15 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1jn.2.15.NASB1995

because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Romans 8:7-8 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/rom.8.7-8.NASB1995

🌹Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: . . . to keep oneself unstained by the world.
James 1:27 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.1.27.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

What’s Your Motive?

Aug6

. . . You do not have because you do not ask.
You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives (wickedly), so that you may spend it on (in) your pleasures.
James 4:2c-3 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.4.2-3.NASB1995

We sometimes, often, ask for treasures, earthly treasures, that reveal where our heart is. Let us remember that what we  treasure most is where our hearts abide. (Matthew 6:21) God blesses the gifts He gives.

He blesses our obedience.

and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.
1 John 3:22 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1jn.3.22.NASB1995

🌹“He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us”.
James 4:5b NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.4.5.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Reflections of a Murderer

Aug5

What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members? You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. . .
James 4:1-2 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.4.1-2.NASB1995

Selfish desires are at the root of many a conflict. We need to acknowledge these desires, confess them to the Lord, and then repent before we are found guilty of murder.

“You have heard that the ancients were told, ‘You shall not commit murder’ and ‘Whoever commits murder shall be liable to the court.’ But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court; and whoever says to his brother, ‘You good-for-nothing,’ shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever says, ‘You fool,’ shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell.
Matthew 5:21-22 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.5.21-22.NASB1995

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
1 John 3:15 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1jn.3.15.NASB1995

The Lord Jesus abides in the person of faith. There is no room for division among the people of faith since Jesus is the author and perfector of our faith. It is He who disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness. There is no quarrel or conflict with a brother or sister in Christ worth standing guilty before our Lord God.
Hebrews 12:2 NASB1995¹
Hebrews 12:10 NASB1995²

🌹We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
1 John 3:16 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1jn.3.16.NASB1995

Experiencing quarrels or conflicts with a fellow believer? Take them to the throne of grace in prayer and let God handle it. He can change your heart and theirs as well.

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

¹https://bible.com/bible/100/heb.12.2.NASB1995
²https://bible.com/bible/100/heb.12.10.NASB1995

Earthly Wisdom

Aug4

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth. This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, natural (unspiritual), demonic.
James 3:14-15 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.3.14-15.NASB1995

But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons,
1 Timothy 4:1 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1ti.4.1.NASB1995

In the last time there will be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts. These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit.
Jude 1:18b-19 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jud.1.18-19.NASB1995

God will render to each person according to his deeds: to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation.
Romans 2:6,8 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/rom.2.6-8.NASB1995

Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away;
the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;
1 Corinthians 2:6, 8 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1co.2.6-8.NASB1995

🌹For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing.
James 3:16 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.3.16.NASB1995

Reminder: the attributes of godly wisdom from above are . . .
first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.
James 3:17 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.3.17.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org